Being with the Body

Stephen has spent years working with people to develop a more direct relationship with their body and inner experience. Alongside a deep training in Gestalt, Somatic Experiencing, and IFS, he has worked with fire, ice, water, and air as elemental tools for meeting the body and self – practices that sit outside conventional frameworks but close to lived experience.

In this programme, he brings particular attention to how sensation, breath, and movement carry information that thinking alone cannot access. He is interested in what becomes possible when people learn to slow down and stay with what is actually present, rather than moving past it.

He works with care for pacing and the quality of the container, attending as much to what is happening between people as to what is happening inside any one person.

Lizzie’s personal interest in being with the body originated from an early age, as a young child living with auto-immune illness in an environment where being in her own body didn’t feel safe. After spending her teenage years doing everything possible to disconnect from her own body, in her twenties, she started a lifelong practice of finding her way back into connection.

Lizzie has been teaching yoga and working as a Rolfer and Rolf Movement practitioner for over 25 years. She is also a Compassionate Inquiry Practitioner and Private Mentor, which has offered another channel into her work as a multidisciplinary Somatic Therapist. Lizzie is also an avid nature enthusiast, bird watcher, piano player and mother, which are sources of inspiration and joy.

She deepened her work through training in the Neurobiology of Stress and Anxiety and the MARK Training for addiction recovery with The Minded Institute. Then further training  in Trauma-informed Yoga, and Yoga in Outreach Settings. 

She undertook her Compassionate Inquiry training in 2021 and then the mentorship programme and has been working therapeutically ever since.

Jack’s approach is warm, attuned, human and playful. It is rooted in the creation of safe relationship. She comes alongside and invites curiosity without leading, so that individuals are supported to uncover the answers they’ve been looking for themselves, (and some hidden bonus answers along the way) whilst feeling understood and validated.

Natalie’s work is rooted in the conviction that how we move through life matters, and that new possibilities of movement, in the body and in relationship, are always available to us. She supports clients through curiosity and exploration – an approach that is less about effort, and more about rediscovering the innate rhythm and regulation that is woven into the fabric of our body’s intelligence.

She is deeply passionate about helping people recover their freedom by removing the barriers to meaningful, lasting change. For a decade, she did this through coaching and leadership work – supporting individuals, teams, and organisations to navigate transformation. But over time, she kept arriving at the same place: lasting change doesn’t come from thinking harder or planning better. It comes from embodying new ways of being and relating to the world.

This is what drew her to Compassionate Inquiry, Somatics and Embodiment, and Dance and Movement Therapy – and what now shapes everything about how she works.

In groups and with individuals, Natalie listens closely – to what is emerging, to what the body is communicating, to the rhythms and impulses that are present and alive. She works with what is unfolding rather than through force, her approach shaped by genuine trust in each person’s own process.

It was motherhood that brought into sharp focus Nancy’s deep desire to recover and heal the wounds of generational trauma.  Her children are now 21, 19 and 14 and they remain her greatest teachers; they live together along with her husband of 24 years.  It is her experience as mother, home educating children with neurodiversity,  and her own addiction recovery that led her to certifying as a coach and then to the work of Gabor Maté which she is so passionate about.

Nancy is known for her calm grounded energy.  Spaciousness and attunement are the hallmarks of her client work, where she enables a sense safety, allowing the work to unfold.  Trusting the clients process and being with their experience she stays present and attuned to what is happening in the moment.  Attentive to what is being expressed through the body, noticing all the subtle shifts and changes and mirroring them back, Nancy gently enables unexpressed emotions to be felt and released within the safety of the relational container.

For most of her life as a self proclaimed ‘pleaser’, Nancy was unfamiliar with her own repressed anger; instead experiencing shame, tears, rumination and an inability to use her voice or assert healthy boundaries.  She now experiences her anger as a friend and a guide, part of the yin and yang of self compassion that protects and guides her when called for. 

Many of her clients come with experiences of emotional overwhelm, stress, burnout, or recurring patterns that make it difficult to feel safe or stay connected to themselves. With warmth and intuitive presence, she offers a space where curiosity and deep listening are the guide, inviting a slowing down, a reconnection, and a gentle meeting with what is ready to be felt and released.

Alongside her individual work, she leads groups of teachers and adult learners in developing somatic awareness and nervous system regulation, integrating Qigong to support greater balance and presence in both personal and professional life. With a background spanning leadership, project management, adult education, Compassionate Inquiry, Ericksonian hypnosis, and IFS, she brings a grounded, relational approach that honours each person’s own process and supports a deeper sense of inner harmony.

Ruth’s professional path evolving from the frontline urgency of a 999 emergency Paramedic to the dynamic energy of an events organizer and the intuitive work of a massage therapist gives her a broad spectrum of experience with people from all walks of life. Her practice is heavily influenced by the work of Dr. Gabor Maté, alongside a “toolbox” of modalities like Inner Childwork, breathwork, and playful movement.

This unique lens, stemming from her own journey through addiction, chronic pain, people-pleasing, and dyslexia, allows her to meet every client with empathy and a calm, playful presence. Ruth’s approach is honest and rooted in creating a safe relationship. She mindfully acts as a “cheerleader” for her clients, inviting curiosity so that her clients are supported to uncover their inner world. She is always honoured to support her clients as they move from old nervous system reactions toward a life of authentic, playful responsibility.